Turlagh
Turlagh is a townland in the civil parish of Aughrim, barony of Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon.
- Area
- 24.2 ha
- 60 acres
- Land parcels
- 13
- registered freehold, median 11,094 m² (1.11 ha, 2.74 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 0
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
13 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Turlagh, from 1,308 m² to 76,470 m² (7.65 ha, 18.9 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 10 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Turlagh in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
No planning application touches the townland of Turlagh in the national file, which goes back to 2010.
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Turlagh.
Recorded monuments
- RO016-031 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise. Circular grass-covered but poached area (diam. 33m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by an earthen bank with some bushes (Wth 1.5-3m; int. H 0.3-0.95m; ext. H 0.5-1m) S-W-ENE, and by a scarp (H 0.6m) elsewhere. There is no visible evidence of a fosse or entrance. Rath (RO016-032----) is c. 200m to the ENE. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
- RO016-032 Ringfort - rath
Description
On a low rise. Circular grass-covered area (diam. 37.5m N-S) defined by an overgrown earthen bank (Wth 4-5m; int. H 0.6m at N to 1.4m at W; ext. H 1.8-2.2m) and outer fosse (Wth of base 3.3-4m; D 0.3-0.8m). There is no outer bank, but the entrance (Wth 2.5m) is at ESE. Rath (RO016-031----) is c. 200m to the WSW. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 24 August 2010
Architectural heritage
No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Turlagh.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- At the centre of the townland of Turlagh, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as low.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Turlagh.
- Flooding
- The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
No address of the register names Turlagh with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Roscommon.
The townland
- Name
- Turlagh
- Area
- 241,911 m² (24.19 ha, 59.78 acres)
- Civil parish
- Aughrim, and its townlands
- Barony
- Frenchpark
- Electoral division
- Creeve, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- 137 people lived in 54 households in the Creeve electoral division. 94% of households owned their home. 33% of homes were built since 2001. 20% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 7% were holiday homes.
- Placenames
- Turlagh on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.